Cups Samba No Windows Printer Drivers Are Installed

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Introduction If you set up Samba as a print server, clients in your network are able to send print jobs to the Samba host using the server message block (SMB) protocol. The examples shown in this documentation use a raw printer in the back end. This configuration requires that the print job is formatted by a driver on the client and thus can be processed by the printer without further processing or filtering. Supported Print Server Back Ends Samba supports the multiple print server back ends, such as and. For a complete list, see the printing parameter in the smb.conf(5) man page. You must set up the printer server back end locally on the Samba host.

Samba cannot forward print jobs to a remote host. However, you can configure the local printer server back end to forward the job to a remote print server. For details how to set up the back end, see the print server's documentation. Samba CUPS or IPRINT Back End Support When using the CUPS or IPRINT print server back end, Samba must have been built with CUPS support enabled.

Windows Server 2003 Std Oem Iso 9000. To verify, enter: # smbd -b grep 'HAVE_CUPS' HAVE_CUPS If no output is displayed: • Samba was built using the --disable-cups parameter. • The Samba configure script was unable to locate the required libraries for CUPS support.